Week Ten – Celebrate City Camp!

For our final week of City Camp this summer, we celebrated by doing some of our favorite things and just having fun. We had an average of 75 kids each day and served 882 child meals.

A huge thanks to the Vivion Road YMCA and Sherwood Bible Church for letting us swim again this week. It has been awesome to be able to bring the campers all summer!

We had a special guest this week, Priscilla Howe, who came and told stories to our kids—they had such a great time!

Thanks to the Kansas City Police Department for letting our teen crew come out and tour the Metro Patrol Division.

We had a lot of awesome field trips, including hiking at Cave Spring Nature Center, playing in the fountains at Concourse Park, visiting the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and swimming at Super Splash Water Park.

We finished the week with a return to one of our favorite field trips all summer, Bump City—thanks for giving us a discount! The kids had a blast and it was a great way to wrap up a fantastic summer!!!

Our biggest thanks goes to our City Camp Interns. These 16 people helped make this summer the best year of City Camp ever! Thanks for all your hard work, long hours, and most of all, for making this a fun place where kids saw God’s love in you and through you daily.

Week Nine – Heroes

What a fun and busy week! Campers enjoyed learning what it means to be a hero, visiting real-life heroes, and finding out more about our ultimate Hero, Jesus.

Thanks to the Kansas City Fire Department for bringing their fire trucks by to let the kids check them out and for letting us come tour the Northeast and Westport stations. The kids loved getting to see what life is like at the fire station—thanks for being so welcoming and sharing with them!

Thanks also to the Kansas City Police Department for allowing us to tour the Metro Patrol Division. Our campers were so excited to see the holding cells and the SWAT vehicles, and to meet one of the accelerant detection dogs in-training! We appreciate them taking the time to answer our many, many questions and showing us around!

We visited Safety Street again and learned about fire safety and 911. We also had a guest speaker, Kevin Horner, who joined us to share his anti-bullying presentation—thanks for helping our kids learn how to be heroes and help each other!

We wrapped up our week with a fieldtrip to Clay County Parks & Rec where the kids took classes on archery, fishing, reptiles and amphibians, and mammals of Missouri. Thanks for a day packed with learning and fun at the lake!



Week Eight – Night at the Museum

This week we used themes from the movie 'Night at the Museum': pilots, dinosaurs, cowboys, Egypt, and others. Campers made airplanes, dinosaurs, pyramids, and a special treat -- homemade ice cream!

The highlights of the week were swimming, of course, at the Vivion Road YMCA and Sherwood Bible Church, visiting the Kansas City Museum, and skating at River Roll!

Thanks to the KC Museum for letting us come out and enjoy story time and many awesome crafts and activities! The kids also had a super fun time skating, thanks River Roll! And thanks to the anonymous donor who bought snacks for everyone while we were there!